Redact PDFs

Permanently delete sensitive text from PDFs — without uploading them anywhere.

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Connected — privacy mode available

You don't need the internet. Disconnect and watch the tool work.

Online

🔒 Verify the privacy claim yourself

The simplest way to confirm your files never leave this device:

Disconnect from the internet.

Turn off your Wi-Fi → the tool keeps working. The banner up top turns green.

Why this works: the tool is JavaScript + WebAssembly that runs entirely in your browser. There is no upload step. Open DevTools → Network and watch — no file ever leaves.

🔒 Verify it yourself: turn off your Wi-Fi, add your PDF and start redacting. Your PDFs never leave your device.
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Drop a PDF or click "Open PDF" above Drag on the page to mark areas to redact. Click Apply & Download to permanently remove the underlying text and download the redacted PDF.

Why this is different

A black box is not redaction

Drawing a black rectangle with a markup or annotation tool doesn't actually remove the text underneath — it's still there, selectable, copy-pasteable. Ask Paul Manafort's lawyers, who exposed sealed information this way in 2018. We use a true Redact step that physically deletes the text from the PDF.

Nothing leaves your device

Every other "online redaction" tool — including Redactable, Sejda, Smallpdf, and Adobe's cloud features — uploads your sensitive PDFs to a server. That's the opposite of confidential. We run entirely in your browser. Turn off Wi-Fi and watch it still work.

Free and unlimited

Adobe Acrobat Pro is $23/mo. Foxit PhantomPDF is $129/yr. Redactable charges per document. We're free — no account, no install, no per-page fee. The cost of trust shouldn't be a subscription.

HIPAA-friendly by design

Because your documents never touch our servers, there's nothing for us to leak, subpoena, or lose. Compliance teams reject SaaS vendors over data-residency questions all the time. With us, the question doesn't exist.

How we compare

Ours Adobe Acrobat Foxit PhantomPDF Redactable Online tools
Files stay on your device✓ VerifiableCloud features upload✓ Desktop onlyUploadsUploads
True content-stream removal✓✓✓✓Often visual cover only
FreeUnlimited$23/mo$129/yr$10–$30/moOften with watermarks
No account / no install✓Adobe ID + appSoftware installAccount requiredVaries
Works offline after load✓Partial✓NoNo

Turn off your Wi-Fi. It still works.

That's how you know nothing ever leaves your device.

Adobe's cloud features, Foxit, Redactable, every online "free" redactor — they all let your sensitive PDFs touch a server at some point. We don't. Run the test yourself.